Red Harvest Quotes
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Red Harvest Quotes
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“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
― Red Harvest
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
― Red Harvest
“You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn't think anything of what he had done to the city's name. Later I heard men who could manage their r's give it the same pronunciation. I still didn't see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves' word for dictionary. A few years later I went to Personville and learned better.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“I was two pavements from my destination when somebodey S-s-s-s-s'd at me.
I probably didn't jump twenty feet.”
― Red Harvest
I probably didn't jump twenty feet.”
― Red Harvest
“Now I'm going to have my fun. I've got ten thousand dollars of your money to play with. I'm going to use it opening Poisonville up from Adam's apple to ankles.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“Elihu Willsson opened the meeting. He said things couldn’t go on the way they were going. We were all sensible men, reasonable men, grown men who had seen enough of the world to know that a man couldn’t have everything his own way, no matter who he was. Compromises were things everybody had to make sometimes. To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. He said he was sure that what we all most wanted now was to stop this insane killing. He said he was sure that everything could be frankly discussed and settled in an hour without turning Personville into a slaughterhouse.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“A bullet kissed a hole in the door-frame close to my noodle.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“I don’t get away soon I’ll be going blood-simple like the natives.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“Plans are all right sometimes," I said. "And sometimes just stirring things up is all right--if you're tough enough to survive, and keep your eyes open so you'll see what you want when it comes to the top.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“Your playmates sent him?” I asked, nodding at the dead man. “I only talked to him with this,” he said, patting the automatic on the bed, “but I reckon they did.” “How did it happen?” “It happened simple enough. I heard the door opening, and I switched on the light, and there he was, and I shot him, and there he is.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“I suppose you'll see her. You'll be disappointed at first. Then without being able to say how or when it happened, you'll find you've forgotten your disappointment, and the first thing you know you'll be telling her your life's history, and all your troubles and hopes.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“you'll have your city back, all nice and clean and ready to go to the dogs again”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“The chief winked at me, an athletic wink in which all his facial muscles took part....”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“She jealous?” I asked before he could go on with his shouting. “And if you don’t yell maybe I’ll be able to hear you anyway. My deafness is a lot better since I’ve been eating yeast.”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest
“Was she jealous?” “She was,” he said, not yelling now, “and domineering, and spoiled, and suspicious, and greedy, and mean, and unscrupulous, and deceitful, and selfish, and damned bad—altogether damned bad!”
― Red Harvest
― Red Harvest